{"product_id":"little-boy-lost","title":"Little Boy Lost","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"std\"\u003e\n\u003cimg width=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/7642\/5795\/files\/littleboy_copy.jpg?width=700\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAFTERWORD BY ANNE SEBBA\u003cbr\u003e232pp\u003cbr\u003e ISBN 9781903155172\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'When I picked up this 1949 reprint I offered it the tenderly indulgent regard I would any period piece,' wrote Nicholas Lezard in the \u003cem\u003eGuardian\u003c\/em\u003e. 'As it turned out, the book survives perfectly well on its own merits - although it nearly finished me. If you like a novel that expertly puts you through the wringer, this is the one.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'Hilary Wainwright, poet and intellectual, returns after the war to a blasted and impoverished France in order to trace a child lost five years before. The novel asks: is the child really his? And does he want him? These are questions you can take to be as metaphorical as you wish: the novel works perfectly well as straight narrative. It's extraordinarily gripping: it has the page-turning compulsion of a thriller while at the same time being written with perfect clarity and precision.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'Had it not got so nerve-wracking towards the end, I would have read it in one go. But Laski's understated assurance and grip is almost astonishing. She has got a certain kind of British intellectual down to a tee: part of the book's nail-biting tension comes from our fear that Hilary won't do something stupid. The rest of \u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLittle Boy Lost\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e's power comes from the depiction of post-war France herself. This is haunting stuff.'\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlso available as a Persephone Classic and a Persephone e-book.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor more on \u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLittle Boy Lost\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e, have a look at the Persephone Perspective.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEndpaper\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"endpaper-caption\"\u003eThe endpaper is a fabric designed in 1946 by the Hélène Gallèt studio in Paris - the green is reminiscent of bourgeois France, and the pattern has both fleur-de-lis and childlike, primitive stars.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Marghanita Laski","offers":[{"title":"None","offer_id":54098758762803,"sku":"xrl1789694416220","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Tissue\/Endpaper","offer_id":54098758795571,"sku":"ogf1789694416221","price":36.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Cambridge Imprint paper","offer_id":54098758828339,"sku":"agn1789694416222","price":34.68,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Reusable fabric napkin","offer_id":54098758861107,"sku":"lat1789694416223","price":40.87,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0989\/0578\/4627\/files\/little-boy-lost_1.jpg?v=1789694444","url":"https:\/\/sandstepclad.shop\/products\/little-boy-lost","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}